Bernhard Ditlef von Staffeldt Military person

Bernhard Ditlef von Staffeldt was born on 23 October 1753 in Kenz, Swedish Pomerania as the son of Lieutenant Bernt von Staffeldt, of Pomeranian nobility, and Catherine Eleonore von Platen. Both his parents died in 1755 while he was still a child so he was raised at his married sisters estate in Denmark, and was taken into the court of Queen Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach in 1767.

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Bernhard Ditlef von Staffeldt
Birth dateOctober 23, 1753
Birth place
Swedish Pomerania
Date of deathJanuary 11, 1818
Place of death
Larvik , Union between Sweden and Norway

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allegiance
Denmark–Norway
Norway
award
Order of the Dannebrog
military operations
Battle of Mobekk
Dano-Swedish War of 1808–09
Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)
Battle of Trangen
Theater War
service start1770
service end1814

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